violence has returned once again to the streets of cairo with angry protesters storming the presidential palace despite the deal between the islamist government and the opposition. in tunisia the funeral of a slain opposition leader is marred by violence as protesters clashed with police this comes against the backdrop of a general strike that has lived in the country. and obama's nominee for the top position in the cia may be under criticism from a drone i think of it but seem to have the support of lawmakers over his targeted assassinations program. plus despite

a final consensus on a reduced new budget for the next seven years your group now faces a serious threat from the european parliament which is likely to ban the deal. top news and commentary direct from our studios in moscow this is our to have you with us. angry protesters have thrown a petrol bombs at the presidential palace in egypt where thousands took to the streets protesting against the government the violence comes despite the deal that some opposition leaders had with the islamist president morsi last week our correspondent in cairo bell true brings us the latest. in the capitol i'm standing above tahir square one hundred just so gov it's chanting against the president and also his organization the mission brotherhood they were violent scenes that front

to the presidential palace to groups attempted to storm the building with mana talks and actually take asked by the security forces who also finds a rule to come into them however the new clashes have really been more violence outside of the capital we've had reports all clashes with security forces and anti-government protesters in alexandria. shake with a possible death the income for sake of that yet to be confirmed as people are really feeling quite a lot to gain here in the country in two weeks on now from the anniversary of the january twenty five by repetition they said nothing has changed in the country in the last two years is that the key issues have yet to be faced by the president including police reform the shortage of bread and fuel and of course the constitution which protesters say was drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly and fish three by the president in the last week this week and also i'm off to there was pretty much full cost from last friday's protest from the

presidential promise of a protest being dragged naked and brutally beaten and in addition there was a young protest from punk to mohamed again the who reportedly died in custody from torture people activists human rights groups have been saying this is a key grievance against him a dark regime that shouldn't be happening now in a post revolution presidents the biggest opposition coalition not to salvation front for that part of sticking by their demands which is are asking the tough in it to resign if they want to not so salvation government and the constitution to be revoked and this happens then they should be one have dialogue with the president president isn't moving on these key issues so we're looking at a divided egypt continuing in the near future. our correspondent bill true is also updating you on the latest details via her twitter feed and one of her most recent post she says that an investigation has been launched into the recent outbreak of violence check it out for yourself but following that bell true.

between. a secular opposition. lead to chaos in the streets. violence erupted. while police responded with tear gas adding to the turmoil. following developments. if you trace india on the ground remains very tense and very valid tile and that is definitely strengthen in that relative stability that

we've seen here although in two thousand and eleven revolution we see more of people here it's quite a small square but it's packed with people with flags and all of them actually chanting from time to time and to government slogans many people we have been able to speak to here and they come here they say that the leader over not a party. this again is personally responsible for this murder well these are very strong accusations actually but we've been hearing that from too many people says he was a symbol of dignity this is a political assassination and that means that the repression and violence is not over this is a crisis. this is a crisis that if people want change again slogans of revolution of democracy protection working class and poor people that didn't work we can see it that is

very close. and what happens the similar there is a sign. of what would happen in the county if we don't find very quickly some concrete. his associates following this is a nation of took privilege there have been many protests not only in the capital tunis but throughout the country and there have been many lashes between police and opposition supporters and we've heard that at least one police officer was killed but definitely there have been much more injured people this is a very bad situation here in the country bad fears a growing that it may turn even more violent and it will go even further if there is no solution immediate solution to this is why people are saying that they're preparing for the worst author and activist affair rosie manji explains why the assassination of the opposition leader holds such dire consequences for tunisia

. the importance of. shukri belayed. cannot be underestimated is assassination as it is a profound. effect on the to listen population he has been an outspoken standing spokesperson for justice in tunis here he has been critical hold the only who he party. and in particular he has enormous credibility within the trade union you could as you can see there's a general strike in court and immediately upon his his assassination i think but. a new phase in the revolution in the into noosphere ingenue would lead lucian's we never knew what the outcome is is going to be and i think there are. signs that this could easily. disintegrate into some kind of civil civil war

hopefully it won't happen. president obama's choice to become the next chief of the cia went through a tough confirmation hearing at the u.s. senate but it wasn't the lawmakers on capitol hill that put him through its paces john brennan under the spotlight over his role in the controversial u.s. drone program now the session was interrupted a several times by protesters who put up signs with slogans such as stop cia murder they were addressing the issue of u.s. drone use for targeted strikes against suspected terrorists john brennan defended the program which he helped develop saying it is an ethical and just and claiming of the strikes are carefully vetted however human rights groups claim the program has in fact led to a large number of civilian deaths so did the u.s. lawmakers hold brennan accountable for his counterterrorism policies artie's going to to can comments. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s.

government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he's known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent a future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks or basically says the u.s. government could execute people who are what they haven't done yet and you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the

level of threat just these people constituting let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog dad he hates america as you can see why he died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not some near enough grilling on the part of the senators to gets really significant answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas ones to go down quote an informed high level of social or u.s. government determines the target is an imminent threat to be here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent thank you for. everybody expected

tough questions on drawls but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. still to come the los angeles police department is on a manhunt for a former officer gone rogue. never tired of the l.a.p.d. cop tells us what might be behind christopher dorner his personal war on his former colleagues. it has been hailed as an historic agreement you members reaching consensus on a budget cut for the first time since the block was created but it seems that now it's the european parliament's turn to put a spoke in the e.u. as we'll as it may use its veto to block the deal or to use tess are silly reports from brussels. there more than twenty four hours of negotiations of bickering. all the cold along the corridors what's next more fighting more negotiations and more

bickering yes after a deal has been made here at the e.u. summit the next step is the european parliament they will have to approve this and we're already hearing reports that the leaders of the main political groups there don't accept the deal that was reached here and the president of the parliament martin shultz last night in a statement he had been sounding very angry at the proposed cuts and now we're already seeing the cots that the twenty seven leaders will impose on the budget he said he's not going to put a signature on something he sees as excessive so if we saw countries leaders coming here protective of their national interest we're going to see political parties protective of their own industries or whatever they represent in parliament and that is going to be a long long time of negotiations it could probably take about three months to get any answer out of there and we're seeing it's already negative david cameron came here saying that he wanted to bring down the general amount of the budget and in fact he did he got the amount he wanted it's about nine hundred eight billion euros

however what's interesting here is he's going to go back to the u.k. now just to explain that a new case contribution is in fact he was able to protect the rebate of the u.k. but let's not forget that that rebate the money that the u.k. gets back to you is hinged on the contribution to agriculture now the agriculture subsidies has been cut down therefore the rebate will also go down and therefore the contribution in fact go up we're already hearing from a euro skeptics especially coming from his own party saying that role well done you're coming back here saying that it's a victory for the u.k. but in fact we're going to be paying more just at a time when he's going to be posing the question he says of the referendum whether or not they should even be a member of the european union the twenty seven if he is reelected in two out of fifteen so whether or not this is a real victory for david cameron he will have to answer that when he gets back to be u.k. . james midway of the european parliament serves as

a major obstacle for the budget deal. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already present to the e.u. parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there were likely to support it so it's going to be rocky right i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the

angle of merkel in particular so he can even try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. i'll be back with more news coming for you right after this short break you're watching r.t. . there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives. with aids this is a problem that. they were really good. people really focused on. you certainly should be able.

to take three. three. three. three. three. three. three. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is back with us the largest manhunt in the history of the los angeles police department continues with the search having now spread to three u.s. states and northern mexico where the suspect is believed to be hiding thousands of

police officers are searching for christopher dorner who is accused of having allegedly murdered two civilians and one police officer and a rambling internet manifesto dorner declared war on law enforcement officers and their families accusing the l.a.p.d. of internal corruption racism concealment of excessive force. investigate. journalist and a former l.a.p.d. officer himself says that dorner represents another manhunt one within the police department to brood out those holding different opinions. i don't condone what's happened and i wanted violence and killing to end but more important i want him to be brought in alive which is something i do not think that l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances with regard to his specific allegations about his case and i'm currently reviewing legal documents that are becoming available online i have to tell you that with regard to his allegations about rich trial board hearings and. very egregious unprofessional cover up

excessive force but also management mouth to mouth these perjury and a lot of other serious things i believe in my honor percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown and has a consistent cultural problem with racism coverup and cronyism within the department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i left for similar reasons we've got more stories for you on our website including a football club's headquarters in jerusalem has been set on fire this after the muslim players from the russian premier league joined the club sparking anger among conservative fans the full story at r.t. dot com. and a famous painting by eugene del across has it been vandalized at the lens move museum a twenty eight year old woman reportedly tag the painting with nine eleven conspiracy theory graffiti and to our website all the details.

on to some other news making headlines around the globe for you this hour the northeastern united states. bracing for a snowstorm which forecasters say may be the heaviest winter snowfall to hit the region in twenty five years thousands of flights have been canceled and rail companies have also suspended train travel while residents have been urged to stay indoors after superstorm sandy knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in october many people have rushed to buy gasoline and stock up on food supply. at least thirty six people have been killed in a string of car bomb attacks on shia areas across iraq as sectarian and ethnic tensions run high provincial elections and the bombings targeted outdoor markets in

baghdad and province south of the iraqi capital no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but in recent weeks we've seen sunni insurgents carrying out almost daily attacks on security forces and civilians in a midterm to to undermine the shia led government. the suicide bomber has blown himself security checkpoint in the northern mali city of god but the attacker himself was the only casualty and this is the first suicide bombing since french troops entered the country whose northern half was ruled by it is almost extremists france now wants u.n. peacekeepers to take over security as it prepares to end its mission there. scuffles have broken out between a former political prisoners and supporters of president saakashvili in the georgian capital of tbilisi the violence erupted on saakashvili was going to deliver his annual state of the nation speech the president was forced to change the venue for the address several times after the country's parliament refused to

provide a platform or even listen to the leader in a new sign of his waning power hailed in the west as an exemplary democratic as really lost popular support as a result of his crackdown on the opposition claims of human rights abuses. georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state. all of the top business destinations in the world while it would be high could be academic freedom according to the world bank i'll be number one fighter with corruption worldwide and many people started to believe in the stations people started to believe the moccasin was mikhail saakashvili is georgia really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your viewpoint when he's universities rectories refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half behind bars. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for

no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. georgie thought he was spending his time with murderers and drug barons and stan he found himself among academics architects and righteous all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven even though. he had often been joked out in school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses are put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgia in jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than

a half inch lost both election and control over the country it's not yet known where the second city will face prosecution of the prison torture allegations that for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the chance to walk free because saakashvili will formally remain as georgia's president until october but he's already been transferred to the prime minister it's anyone who has. already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but actually heard say there was socialization may take several more years alexi russia see reporting from belief in georgia a turkish top naval commander has resigned over the detention of hundreds of his colleagues he's been followed by a number of turkish air force officers who have also quit in what could be a sign of weakening morale in the country's military andrew finkel journalist and author of turkey what everyone needs to know says the military has an axe to grind with the government over its deviation from secularism straight clear that the

military traditionally a powerful force within turkish politics was trying to undermine its own government and of course the government fought back and they fought back success really feeds conspiracy trials so. perhaps this is simply the military saying ok you've let you know you have it your own way but. at the at the moment the prime minister i don't is a little bit concerned he's actually said that there are too many military officers in detention awaiting trial and i mean the reason the country has a military is to defend itself so if you put all their offices in jail and then the boys very rude must be a little bit vulnerable so i think the government realizes that perhaps that thing has gone too far that it's time to actually get the military back on their side but of course the residents recent wave of resignations will not come as good news so i think that's what the military themselves might feel some people sympathetic to the

military might feel that they have a government which is to leans too far to the religious right and indeed that's one of the reasons why the military tried to everett there are two are undermined their government in the first place. and coming up in a couple of minutes it's breaking the set with host abby martin right here on r.t. . saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation

activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their hearts they secretly want but often they miss things like the fact that it was saudi women who ask for the segregation feeling uncomfortable while buying products from men according to a.f.p. you know some people in countries like saudi arabia or north korea might actually like living a radically different lifestyle and even if they don't like living that way well it is their job to fix it not by some sort of western intervention when i want to live in either of those countries not really do i want to live in a country with the saudi arabian concept of gender not really but part of having freedom of choice means being able to choose things that i may think are backwards or illogical you know let them have the walls in the stores if they want western civilization you know if it's truly the end all of human evolution then they'll take those walls down eventually on their own but that's just my opinion.

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